Senior ML Platform Engineer: Low-Latency Inference

Coinbase, Inc.; Salem (OR); Hybrid; USD 191,000 - 225,000; Full time

Job summary

Coinbase is seeking a Senior Machine Learning Platform Engineer to build the foundational infrastructure powering feature engineering, model training, and model serving across the company. The platform supports fraud detection, user personalization, and blockchain analysis, spanning streaming, distributed training, and high-availability inference services that shape ML scale across Coinbase.

The role emphasizes responsibility, ownership, and collaboration with ML engineers to deliver

Qualifications

• 5+ years of industry experience as a software engineer, with ownership of distributed systems in production environments.
• Built and operated low-latency data or ML infrastructure (streaming pipelines, online serving systems, or distributed training) processing data at scale.
• Track record of mentoring engineers and raising team engineering quality through code reviews, design reviews, and technical leadership.
• Familiarity with ML platform components (feature stores, model serving frameworks, training orchestration) sufficient to partner effectively with ML engineers as a platform builder.
• Utilizes generative AI responsibly, maintaining human oversight to deliver business-ready outputs and drive measurable improvements in workflow efficiency, cost, and quality.

Responsibilities

• Own the design and reliability of ML inference infrastructure serving both predictive models and LLMs, maintaining high availability and low latency at scale.
• Build and optimize low-latency streaming pipelines that deliver fresh, high-quality feature data to production ML models.
• Drive improvements to distributed training infrastructure, enabling ML engineers to process large data volumes efficiently.
• Develop observability tooling to monitor data quality entering models and detect degradations impacting model performance.
• Mentor junior engineers on building production-grade software, raising the team's engineering standards over time.

Skills

Distributed systems

ML infrastructure

Mentoring engineers

Feature stores

Model serving

Tools

Streaming pipelines

Distributed training

Model serving frameworks

Training orchestration

Job description

Coinbase is seeking a Senior Machine Learning Platform Engineer to build the foundational infrastructure powering feature engineering, model training, and model serving across the company. The platform supports fraud detection, user personalization, and blockchain analysis, spanning streaming, distributed training, and high-availability inference services that shape ML scale across Coinbase.

The role emphasizes responsibility, ownership, and collaboration with ML engineers to deliver